AI is infiltrating our personal lives and the workplace, and soon will be everywhere and irreplaceable in everything you do. At home and in the workplace. Developing and cultivating an AI Mindset will become a must for the modern knowledge worker. In a series of short blogs, I will explore core elements of an AI mindset. In this blog; Collaboration. In previous blogs I discussed Smart Trust and AI-Collaboration.

Growth Mindset

Carol Dweck has shown that people with a fixed mind-set believe their talent and capabilities in life are a given, and not a lot of things can be done about them. People with a growth mind-set believe that every skill can be trained and feel they are the master of their destiny. Dweck’s decades of research and many experiments show two important things: first, people can be influenced to adopt a growth mind-set over a fixed mind-set before they take on a task; and second, individuals or groups having a growth mind-set almost always outperform those who do not.

Reaching Full Potential with AI

The growth mindset is correlated to the challenge attribute of mental toughness. People that score high on challenge, dare to put themselves out of their comfort zone. It is outside of our comfort zone that we experience new things and learn. However, individuals high in challenge also take on a learning orientation. They dare to fail by trying out new things but are open to take the learnings every time they do. Without the learning orientation, and adapting because of it, failure doesn’t feed progress.

Challenging yourself requires people to overcome a basic human instinct to stay safe in what they know and stick to their surroundings. Abraham Maslow describes overcoming this fear as follows; “In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.” The highest level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is self-actualization, the need to realize one’s full potential. Most knowledge workers will have to embrace AI and work with it to meet their full potential.

The AI-mindset

The AI mindset sees working with AI as an opportunity to grow. The AI mindset challenges itself to work outside their comfort zone to learn with something new like AI.  The AI mindset sees failures with AI as a reason to adapt and try again, to keep improving and realize their full potential together with AI.

Growing & learning with AI is a feat of the modern knowledge worker.